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Occombe Farm Nature Day

May 12, 2018

We are booking a full day at Occombe farm to enable our children to really interact with nature and the environment in a fully accessible way. The staff at Occombe are already working on a package that will make things as VI friendly as possible. The centre is also wheelchair friendly and has a fully equipped disabled changing room with hoist etc.

About us

The group is open to all VI children and their parents, carers, siblings and extended families. We also offer membership to VI parents and grandparents with either sighted or VI children or grandchildren.

We organise a number of parent/carer meetings each year and 8 - 10 family activity days and fundraising events along with a great resedential trip away each year. We also produce a newsletter three times per year. We have an active network of email contact and a members list through which families can contact each. Through this work, we aim to reduce the isolation often felt by the families of VI children and the children themselves and also to increase awareness of the needs of visually impaired children in the community.